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Speculation about a visit to Beijing by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un or another high-level Pyongyang official was running high Tuesday amid talk of preparations for a meeting between the North's reclusive leader and President Trump. The arrival of a special train in Beijing and unusually heavy security at a guesthouse where prominent North Koreans have stayed in the past have fueled talk that Kim was making his first visit to China as the North's leader, the AP reports. Such a trip would be seen as a potential precursor to Kim's planned summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in late April and his anticipated meeting with Trump by May. Analysts, however, questioned whether Kim would make the visit to Beijing himself rather than send an envoy.

While there has been no word of a meeting with Chinese leaders, China has been one of North Korea's most important allies even though relations have chilled recently because of Kim's development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. On Monday, heavy security was reported at the Friendship Bridge on the Yalu River marking the border between China and North Korea before a train passed. Japanese broadcaster NTV reported that the green and yellow train appeared very similar to the one that Kim's father and predecessor as North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, took to Beijing in 2011. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, asked whether Kim or another North Korean official was visiting Beijing, said, "I know you're all very curious but I have no information on that." (These defectors crossed the Yalu River, then vanished.)

Pyongyang vs Seoul without Donald Trump : At this time, we're only interested in North Korea's self-reliance fulfillment, not the communist China's sanctions against North Korea; to observe fat-boy Kim Jong-un to open his regime to his North Korean people South Korean relatives' (private) financial bailout Korean Peninsula's economy, how this strategy can override Trump-John Bolton Bully policy to dominate North-South Korean Peninsula's Sovereignty and Unification fulfillment; this strategy of reopening Kaesong Industrial Zone (Kaesong Factory Park) in order to rebuild North-South Economic-Cycle oneself. South Korean KBS TV's 1-hour documentary TV program titled as "Hometown Report" is good and helpful to insist fat-boy Kim Jong-un's Economic Privatization regime-reform.

Gopher Baroque

Mar 27, 2018 9:08 AM CDT

Smart move, work on a dialogue with China first then bring in South Korea after that dialogue is settled. Leave Trump out of the mix till all sides are able to move forward, there's no need to have Trump there, they know that his input will only screw up anything the adults do. China won't let Trump do anything to NK, Russia also has a stake in this and Trump may be able to fool his few supporters but the world is just laughing at him.

UnRealHypocrisy

Mar 27, 2018 8:21 AM CDT

Anyone can speculate on what factors changed Kim's perspective.. But without speculation.. the fact remains.. His rebellion was Increasing Under Obama.. and Decreasing Under Trump.. Trump is the greatest President Ever!!!!